Ben Thypin, a senior market analyst with Real Capital Analytics, believes in particular that markets that did not get “overheated” during the boom will likely squeak through now with commercial properties intact and unforeclosed. Many lenders opted in 2009 and 2010 to “extend and pretend” on troubled loans, essentially banking on their being a way to resolve delinquent accounts or settle up with borrowers later once the commercial market had bottomed out. Now that most experts are predicting that there will not be a “double dip” in the commercial sector, lenders, buyers and borrowers are starting to move on these types of resolutions.

Ben Carlos Thypin

I am currently the co-founder of Quantierra, the world's first data driven real estate brokerage and investment manager. In my former life as Director of Market Analysis at Real Capital Analytics, I worked with press outlets large and small to provide them with great data and insightful commentary. Here are some of the results of this collaboration. For the rest, please check out the News Archive.